Explore Microsoft Program

Explore Microsoft is intended for students who are beginning their academic studies and would like to learn more about careers in software development through an experiential learning program.

US Program: The Explore program provides challenging and impactful projects and is completed working in a pod alongside other Explorers. Explorers will experience both core tech disciplines over 12 weeks (Program Manager and Software Engineer), rather than specializing in just one.

India Program: The Explore program provides challenging and impactful projects and is completed working in a pod alongside other Explorers. Explorers will experience in the software engineering discipline over the 8 week program.

You will work in a small team to complete a project for your product group through which you will gain exposure to the software development lifecycle: Design, Build and Quality.

We want you to be involved with your group project, so we will assign you to a specific product team while you are here. However, there will be plenty of opportunities to attend discussions about different Microsoft technologies and to learn from employees working around campus.

Microsoft’s second-year application is intended for candidates in their second year of a bachelor's degree program in the United States, Canada, Mexico or India. The Explore Microsoft’s first-year application is intended for candidates in their first year of a bachelor's   degree program in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. Please do not apply for both.

Most of the opportunities are offered at our Redmond, WA, Atlanta, GA, and various India campuses.

Yes. We do not require you be a computer science major to apply. However, we do require all candidates to have completed an Introduction to Computer Science (or equivalent course) and one semester of calculus (or equivalent). We are interested in individuals who have a demonstrated passion for technology and a desire to further explore the field of software development.